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Except for that immensely popular linux distribution Android. Netflix and Amazon have no problem streaming to those devices.
by dublinben 13y ago
Except for that immensely popular linux distribution Android. Netflix and Amazon have no problem streaming to those devices.
- corresation 13y agoIf you recall, they had a huge problem streaming to them. http://blog.netflix.com/2010/11/netflix-on-android.html http://blog.netflix.com/2010/11/netflix-on-android.html Netflix delayed their offering, and then restricted it to a few devices for quite some time, and now makes heavy use of the Android DRM framework. This doesn't exist on desktop Linux, and I doubt it could even be incorporated (however pragmatic) given the knee-jerk reaction to anything DRM.
- pessimizer 13y agoOnly if the video is being decrypted by the kernel rather than userspace, which may be true from what little I know about the inner workings of DRM. Otherwise, it's the GNU part that's important, not the 'Linux' shorthand.